Algernon Blackwood

Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...

At the moorland cross-roads, Martin stood examining the sign-post in some bewilderment, but then realized that he had taken the wrong turning. The loneliness of the country about him haunted...

The following events occurred on a small island in a large Canadian lake. I only found two mirrors, and spent the rest of the day taking stock of the situation. A week passed by, and I progressed...

From Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. A man dressed like a gamekeeper in browny green hit the surveyor's clerk on the legs with a switch and went straight on. A new glade...

Blake had been in very low water for months and wondered when his luck was going to turn again. Blake scratched his head and concluded that the man might be a secretary or a chief clerk. The man...

Williams had worked his way up to stand easily among the first half-dozen;. Cover, but he scorned the Hensig case. The two reporters followed the warder down the flagged corridor, where they found...

Young Marriott was locked into his room and pulled himself together at last, but volunteered nothing while the host carried on a running one-sided conversation. Field tip-toed across the floor to...

In the spring I found time to visit my friend and fell into a pleasant reverie. The weather changed abruptly and I felt suspicious about myself because my poetic sense had suddenly opened up in...

Felix Henriot came through the streets of London on a January night, and remembered an opportune invitation to the Desert. Helouan danced into letters of brilliance upon the inner map of his...

The utter loneliness of our moose-camp on Skeleton Lake impressed us from the beginning. The professor was discussing the dangers of hunting alone in couples when I became bored and started looking...

Certain houses manage to proclaim at once their character for evil. Shorthouse agreed to go to visit his Aunt Julia. A few minutes later they stopped before a tall, narrow house that rose before...

When I was a medical student, I came across one or two very curious human beings. One of them awakened my sense of horror. A short, thick-set man of forty-five, with immense shoulders and small,...